No one gives a shit if you're black and missing

[CatWoman]

yet, missing white women grab all the headlines and air time.

Only in America.



DAMSELS IN DISTRESS....Last June, a black woman named Tamika Huston was reported missing by her family. USA Today picks up the story from there:

Rebkah Howard, Huston's aunt and a public relations professional in Miami, tried to get the national media interested in the case. "I spent three weeks calling the cable networks, calling newspapers — even yours," Howard said this week.

Not much happened.

...."It's stunning sometimes how hard it is to get the national media interested when it's a minority,"

Good for USA Today for writing about this. Maybe eventually this kind of publicity will embarrass the cable folks into finding something else to fill their airtime.

UPDATE: Tamika Huston's uncle emails to pass along the following two sites where you can get more information about her:

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http://www.tamika.info
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http://www.tamikahuston.com

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_06/006516.php

[fleabert]

1. sad that she's missing, and sadder still that I am not surprised that this

is the first time I have heard about it. If I go missing, it might be a story, but if my SIL does, I seriously doubt it. I am white, she's not. It's disgusting.

[babsbunny]

Your right!

I don't know what to say!

[bigwillq]

2. Good for USA Today for this story.

Bad for USA Today because they had no DSM story.

I agree--if you're not white or rich or white and rich, you get no coverage with stories like these. It's sad.

[Solly Mack]

3. Yet another "Girl X"

:(

[arcane1]

4. amen to that, sadly

:evilfrown:

[jean]

5. DU could certainly be used to alert the internet and msm about

any missing person - we could just as easily email, fax and call about a disappearance as we do about politics.

[Hidden Stillness]

6. The Issue Is the Oppression of Black Women

This is the way this issue should be stated--attacking the police, media, etc., for not responding or showing any interest, and questioning why they do not. The important point is that they are choosing to ignore black women (for example) and not only for this type of crime, and that these things will go unsolved and unpunished because the media is totally uninterested when they can't work up a sponsor-pleasing, moneymaking ride out of it. Otherwise, you lose the focus of the issue and the real accusation against them, and end up with yet another of the thousands of threads of woman-haters disguising it as "concern" about this issue--they are upset that raped, dead white women would get attention at the end--and, surprise, surprise, no one is referring to black women anymore, here either. Solve the violation that is actually present.

[linazelle]

7. Ya think the media will be embarassed enough to do something about it...

think again. :eyes:

[goclark]

8. Who has that email address list for the cable stations?

I am so so mad I could cry!!!

[alcuno]

9. When Chandra Levy was missing, 2 little girls from Chicago disappeared.

They are black and their names are Tionda and Diamond Bradley. I will never forget them because I was enraged at the time at the coverage for Levy, an adult, while 2 little black girls received little or no coverage outside of Chicago. They have not been found.

[mopaul]

10. you make an uncomfortable but glaring point

like when iraq took a black soldier lady hostage and the big story was poor pale little jessie lynch, made into a hero by kkkarl rove.